As news of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s buyout of Twitter broke on Monday, former President Trump declared that he remains loyal to his “TRUTH Social” app even if his defunct Twitter account is reinstated by the world’s richest person.
Sure, Trump won’t go back to Twitter, until suddenly he does.
And, Musk buying Twitter might be a good thing, because if they drop all the moderating of content and allow the right wingers to get their freak on, it’s going to drive a lot of decent people away. No one wants to post some interesting story and be bombarded by Nazis screaming about how you’re grooming kids by being in favor of Medicare for All or some other liberal policy. I suspect this is more about Musk wanting to control an outlet for spreading propaganda about his beliefs and projects, it’s not even clear that he’s onboard with letting the Nazis run rampant on the internet.
Not everyone in Texas or Austin thinks Musk is doing us any favors.
Now more than ever, save yourself and get off of all social media. None of us need to communicate instantly with anyone nor does the rest of the world need to know what you think!
“Twitter has bots and fake accounts, and we are doing everything we can [to do that even more–nobody knows bots and fake accounts like I do!]” Trump said.